Emotions and Feelings

Now warm in love, now with’ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent’s solitary gloom!

True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

The wrath of Peleus’ son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O goddess sing!

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flash’d the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th’ affrighted skies.

What dire offense from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

From wine what sudden friendship springs!

From wine what sudden friendship springs!

I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another’s fame.

In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Man wants but little, nor that little long.

Tired nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep!

The love of praise, howe’er conceal’d by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev’ry heart.

What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

Curse on his virtues! they’ve undone his country.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

’Tis not in mortals to command success, But we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it.